Education
Saint St. Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation.
Saint St. Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation.
She is one of the most famous pilots in Russian history, and one of the most important female pilots of all time. Marina Vasilieva became a Soviet Air Force pilot and in 1964, a military test pilot. She authored nine books and two screenplays.
Marina Popovich, a Russian Writers" Union member, authored nine books, including the poetry collection Zhizn – vechny vzlyot (Life"s An Eternal Rise, 1972).
She is a co-author of two film scripts, Nebo So Mnoy (Sky Is With Maine, 1974) and Buket Fialok (Bouquet of Violets, 1983). Popovich and UFOs Marina Popovich speaks about her experience with UFOs in her book titled unidentified flying object Glasnost (published in 2003 in Germany) and in public lectures and interviews.
She claims that the Soviet military and civilian pilots have confirmed 3000 unidentified flying object sightings and that the Soviet Air Force and Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) have fragments of five crashed UFOs. The crash sites were Tunguska (1908), Novosibirsk, Tallinn, Ordzhonikidze and Dalnegorsk (1986).
Marina Popovich"s first husband was Pavel Popovich, a former Soviet cosmonaut, with whom she had two daughters, Natalya (b 1956) and Oksana (b 1968), both Moscow State Institute of International Relations graduates.
Her second husband is Boris Alexandrovich Zhikhorev, a retired Russian Airforce Major general, Deputy chairman of the Central Committee of the Union of the Soviet Officers. Order of the Red Banner.
Among many other awards, she has been honored as Hero of Socialist Labor, the Order of Courage (presented personally by Vladimir Putin in June 2007) and a star in the Cancer constellation bears her name.